Parul Garg and Geoff Castle cover the complexities of stressed and distressed credit investing, the risks and rewards, the current opportunity and their history and experience in this area. Highlights: Capital priority for credit investors—a key advantage over equity investors. What it really takes to be a great distressed credit investor. Why distressed credit is […]
Highlights The strongest contributors to the Fund were Paratek Pharmaceuticals Inc., Emergent BioSolutions Inc., Esperion Therapeutics Inc., and Bausch Health. Decliners in the Fund included McDermott International Inc., PHI Group Inc., and American Tire Distributors Inc. In April, the Fund added a new position in DISH Network Corporation which is building out an ambitious 5G […]
Parul and Geoff cover the complexities of stressed and distressed credit investing, the risks and rewards, the current opportunity and their history and experience in this area. Highlights: The opportunity set they are seeing and cyclicality. Overvalued and undervalued sectors. Where investing ideas come from. The Four Ps: Pre-investment, Purchase, Pro-active credit management, Position exit. […]
Parul and Geoff cover the complexities of this investment niche, the risks and rewards, the current opportunity and their history and experience in this area. Parul Garg and Geoff Castle have been investing in this part of credit markets since 2015 and see an opportunity emerging. The cycle created by the transition in monetary policy […]
Highlights For the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Fund generated a 1.9% return.[1] Several high-quality, defensive, relatively longer-dated lines, such as Loblaw Companies Ltd., Verisign Inc. and Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. bolstered performance. There are signs suggesting the hiking cycle is nearing its peak. Should the rate hikes to date slow the economy […]
The Pender Corporate Bond Fund returned -0.5%[1] in March. Although the period was a strong one for the high-grade part of the portfolio, a few idiosyncratic events in particular lines and widening spreads in lower-tier credit holdings led to a net negative result for the month. Highlights Most of the Fund’s investment grade holdings were […]
Highlights The Pender Corporate Bond Fund had a relatively strong performance amidst a market that saw larger price declines in both high yield and investment grade bond benchmarks. We added a position in the 2028 unsecured bonds of Brazilian payments processing specialist, StoneCo Ltd. An equity portfolio holding of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the company’s bonds […]
Highlights Most of the holdings of the Pender Corporate Bond Fund rose as lower benchmark yields coincided with narrowing spreads for corporate bonds. Significant performers included positions in discounted convertible bonds as holdings in Eventbrite Inc., Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings, Inc. and Esperion Therapeutics Inc. each gained in excess of 10%. New positions included recycling an […]
For the three months ended December 31, 2022, the Pender Bond Universe Fund generated a 0.8%[1] return, outperforming its benchmark by approximately 70bp. For the full year of 2022, the Fund returned -6.4%1, realizing a respectable 5.3% of relative outperformance compared to its benchmark. The Fund’s positive return over the last six months of the […]
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